Drupal http request fails php56

Workaround

• This may be due to a change in PHP's SSL context options (for more information, see its changelog entry ). With this change, by default PHP 5.6 sets verify_peer to TRUE. This means that drupal_http_request requires additional options to connect using SSL when a self-signed (or otherwise invalid) certificate is in place.
• https://docs.acquia.com/articles/php-56-upgrades-generate-http-request-status-fails-messages

Steps

• Check

drush vget drupal_http_request_fails

• Best choice core patch https://www.drupal.org/node/1081192#comment-10286513 No need for my use case with drupal nodejs, fixed by Error opening socket ssl://mysite.com:443
  • How about making the SSL context options configurable via a variable?
  • This makes it possible to do something like this in settings.php

$conf['drupal_ssl_context_options'] = array('verify_peer_name' => FALSE);

Issues drupal nodejs

• Doesn't work even with conf['drupal_http_request_fails'] = FALSE; and drush cc all with drupal nodejs
• Fixed with Error opening socket ssl://mysite.com:443

Possible causes

• no certificate transparency information was supplied by the server fixed with Error opening socket ssl://mysite.com:443